Please help me with CSS code...am really lost

[JSWolf]

Why hasn't this thread been moved to ePub when it's not about Sigil at all? I did report it and yet it still remains in the wrong place.

[theducks]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

Why hasn't this thread been moved to ePub when it's not about Sigil at all? I did report it and yet it still remains in the wrong place.

Who did you report it to?
A PM to one of the Sigil Mods (for this forum) would get faster response.

BTW I Agree

Moderator Notice
Moving to EPUB, Not a Sigil specific issue

[exaltedwombat]

Originally Posted by mrmikel

Which is why creation of epubs is not likely to ever been entirely simple, unless you are making them just for yourself. For yourself, the sky is the limit. 25 fonts, 15 text sizes, wahoo!

Which is why design of epubs SHOULD be simple :-)

[exaltedwombat]

Originally Posted by theducks

Now that violates what I was taught in Print shop (Cold and Hot type) in High School.
A document should have no more than 6 fonts (I take that to mean, Font Families) or it becomes too busy.
.

Make that two :-)

[dgatwood]

Originally Posted by theducks

Now that violates what I was taught in Print shop (Cold and Hot type) in High School.
A document should have no more than 6 fonts (I take that to mean, Font Families) or it becomes too busy.

For a small document, sure. But books can handle more than that because of their size. For example, your title page need not use the same font as other pages in the book. Your chapter heads often get significantly different styles. Drop caps. Small caps. Heading along the top. And you're right at six without doing anything even remotely fancy with the body text, sidebars, etc.

[theducks]

Originally Posted by dgatwood

For a small document, sure. But books can handle more than that because of their size. For example, your title page need not use the same font as other pages in the book. Your chapter heads often get significantly different styles. Drop caps. Small caps. Heading along the top. And you're right at six without doing anything even remotely fancy with the body text, sidebars, etc.

I would consider Each 'EPUB Page' within a book a 'Document'

Titlepage
Chapter(s)
TOC

Most chapters have how many different?
Chapter number
Chapter sub-title
Drop/Initial Cap
the basic body text
Special-case text: Ransom notes, headlines...

In many cases, they are just a size/weight change, not a separate face.

[Iroc]

Originally Posted by Jellby

span.drop {
  font-weight: bold;
  font-size: 300%;
}

and in the HTML:

<p><span class="drop">T</span>his is the first paragraph of the chapter.</p>

h1 + p, h2 + p, h3 + p, h4 + p, h5 + p, h6 + p {
  text-indent: 0;
}

and make sure the chapter headings are indeed marked with <h1> to <h6>



Use <i> for italic.

For the margin:

@page {
  margin: 25%;
}

but I'm sure that's not what you want.

Thank you.
Especially for the span part saved my life with that.